“My wife sent me off for three days”: The Pitt star Noah Wyle reveals how playing Dr. Robby affected his personal life

The Pitt premiered on HBO Max on January 9, 2025, and received wide acclamation from both viewers and critics. The official synopsis of the show, as mentioned by Rotten Tomatoes, reads,

“A realistic examination of the challenges facing healthcare workers in America as seen through the lens of the frontline heroes working in a modern-day hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.”

The Pitt will be returning for another season and actor Noah Wyle, who plays the lead role of Dr. Michael "Robby" Robinavitch and also serves as the executive producer, recently talked to The Hollywood Reporter about how the intensity of the show affected his personal life.

Talking about how he remained in character even after the shoot got over every day, he said,

“I just didn’t leave it until we finished, and then as soon as we finished, my wife sent me off for three days to go sit on a beach.”

Wyle’s comment highlighted the struggles actors have to go through to ensure that their portrayal of a particular character remains consistent.

Noah Wyle did not break character while shooting The Pitt

In the same interview with THR, Wyle mentioned that his decision to stay in character till the whole show was done shooting took a toll on his family members. He said,

“I was really asking a lot of my family during those latter episodes, to be very patient with whatever mood I was going to come home in, because it was easier for me to stay in it than try to come out of it and be normal and then go back to work and get back in it.”

Wyle’s character had a number of intense moments in The Pitt and for the actor, the episode where he had a panic attack on the ER floor stood out. Talking about the experience of shooting that scene, Wyle said,

“I was so looking forward to that release both for myself and the character. The whole season has been building to that point — I was so excited to shoot it. I came to work … that was one of my better days.”

The series has kept its storylines as close to reality as possible. Being a medical drama, keeping things real has been one of the strongest aspects of the show and that is a quality that Wyle looks forward to maintaining in the upcoming second season as well.

The Pitt can be streamed on HBO Max.

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